The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780226156422
Subjects: Christianity; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Family & relationships; Folklore; Fiction; Love / Sex / Marriage; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Folklore & Mythology; Sexuality; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Comparative studies; Deception; Mythology; Sex
First sentence: You go to bed with someone you think you know, and when you wake up you discover that it was someone elseanother man or another woman, or a man instead of a woman, or a woman instead of a man, or a god, or a snake, or a foreigner or alien, or a complete stranger, or your own wife or husband, or your mother or father.